(I'm not one to say "who cares" on Slashdot practically ever, but it sounds so far like you were trying to start a war over me wearing grey socks instead of white.)
Assuming nobody has used the transporter since and overwritten his buffer...aren't there a couple plots that involve the transporter devices having limited memory capacity?
1. Wants are finite. 2. Most people would want an extra hour in the day to get stuff done. 3. If one got that extra hour in the day, they would fill it with the stuff they currently don't have time to do. 4. After a period of normalization, they would find things to fill another extra hour in the day with. 5. Wants are infinite.
Plus, I can *want* things that aren't possible. I for example would love a time machine. If the possibility of what I want approaches zero, doesn't the value of the desired thing approach infinity?
(What's that, the sound of logicians screaming? Oops!)
If you think about it, aren't Starfleet personnel always on a tier above the rest anyway? "First among equals" and all that:) If Starfleet is what the common human aspires to, then how do you get in? Study hard? But everybody's studying hard...maybe you need connections...hmmm...
Is it even possible to get to that society, and should we want to.
it would be much more efficient, clean, and environmentally friendly to automate the entire process
Where to even start....You are aware that every time you automate something, it takes a bunch of extremely rare elements to make the electronics, right? And considering all the fossil fuels we burn throughout the manufacturing process, I question how much "more environmentally friendly" it is either.
Yeah, for the same reason that when doing a poll, open-ended questions are basically useless for getting good data; you want range-of-response. Which demonstrates that facebook is *only* interested in this implementation to farm your data. Shocking, right?
Then how do you explain all those languages with male-female-neuter nouns with little rhyme or reason to them? In German, "river" is male, while "mountain" is female. You'd think these would both be obvious candidates for neuter gender, but no. And that's the case for the vast majority of nouns.
Except for the part where the rover is actually programmed to emit messages like that...granted, it seems a bit dopey and a waste of man-hours to me, but hey.
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I think the hard part is staying alive for 500 years...
(The implied 'you' makes it sound like you're talking about a singular entity :)
Case in point, das Maedchen is the German word for girl, and is neuter.
I was demonstrating that noun genders in some languages are not nearly so cut-and-dried as you so dismissively make them out to be.
If companies are afraid to purposely infringe the GPL since v3 came out, I would call that a win. :)
Cynics end up bitter; idealists end up screwed.
(I'm not one to say "who cares" on Slashdot practically ever, but it sounds so far like you were trying to start a war over me wearing grey socks instead of white.)
We're really having an argument about what system my PC uses to bootstrap itself, that I have no interaction with whatsoever?
Er, why should I care?
The moral of the story: Install your own copy of Firefox in ~/bin, direct from mozilla.org.
*wikis Marina Sirtis*
Oh, she was doing that accent on *purpose*?! I had always assumed she had a speech impediment or something.
Well, they specifically outlawed genetic enhancement in Star Trek. They had an episode about how Bashir was an illegal augment.
You might note that neither Cardassia nor Bajor were actually part of the Federation...so there's that...
So you move the population close to the oceans.
Well duh, why do you think ocean squares give 2 trade in Civ 2? That's basically the only easy way to pump your research.
Wait...I think I accidentally context-switched...were we talking about real life?
Assuming nobody has used the transporter since and overwritten his buffer...aren't there a couple plots that involve the transporter devices having limited memory capacity?
Yeah, it's kind of funny how often they end up getting in fights with a scientific research/exploratory vessel (The Enterprise).
"No no, of course we need those phaser banks and photon torpedos! 'We come in peace; shoot to kill!' "
1. Wants are finite.
2. Most people would want an extra hour in the day to get stuff done.
3. If one got that extra hour in the day, they would fill it with the stuff they currently don't have time to do.
4. After a period of normalization, they would find things to fill another extra hour in the day with.
5. Wants are infinite.
Plus, I can *want* things that aren't possible. I for example would love a time machine. If the possibility of what I want approaches zero, doesn't the value of the desired thing approach infinity?
(What's that, the sound of logicians screaming? Oops!)
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I still don't understand why those exist. It just feels so wrong.
(Yes, the literal answer is "marketing" I suppose)
You're assuming people are logical. A lot of them aren't.
If you think about it, aren't Starfleet personnel always on a tier above the rest anyway? "First among equals" and all that :) If Starfleet is what the common human aspires to, then how do you get in? Study hard? But everybody's studying hard...maybe you need connections...hmmm...
Is it even possible to get to that society, and should we want to.
it would be much more efficient, clean, and environmentally friendly to automate the entire process
Where to even start....You are aware that every time you automate something, it takes a bunch of extremely rare elements to make the electronics, right? And considering all the fossil fuels we burn throughout the manufacturing process, I question how much "more environmentally friendly" it is either.
You could do it with ASCII/whatever random encoding you want, it just wouldn't be useful as a readable symbol.
Hell, if we eliminate all this freedom of choice stuff, we could implement it with a single bit. M=1, F=0 (or reverse it if you like) ;)
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[ ] Likely To Be Offended
Yeah, for the same reason that when doing a poll, open-ended questions are basically useless for getting good data; you want range-of-response. Which demonstrates that facebook is *only* interested in this implementation to farm your data. Shocking, right?
Sounds like you'd have a much harder time describing a mixed-gender conversation without constantly using names.
Then how do you explain all those languages with male-female-neuter nouns with little rhyme or reason to them? In German, "river" is male, while "mountain" is female. You'd think these would both be obvious candidates for neuter gender, but no. And that's the case for the vast majority of nouns.
That's because it's possibly the only relationship type that could actually be bad for society in an objective, measurable way
I thought this conversation left the "objective, measurable" realm a loooooong time ago.
Except for the part where the rover is actually programmed to emit messages like that...granted, it seems a bit dopey and a waste of man-hours to me, but hey.
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